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I'm not sure what Cromwell's secretary of state John Thurloe would make of having his house at Wisbech yarnbombed.
Book Review: ‘Killing Beauties’ by Pete Langman
Book Review: ‘Killing Beauties’ by Pete Langman
KILLING BEAUTIES is a gripping historical fiction novel set during the Protectorate of the 1650s and focuses on the underworld of espionage through the actions of the main character, Susan Hyde. Susan, sister to Edward Hyde (he who is best known for being the powerful advisor to Charles II and for his History of the Rebellion) is a she-intelligencer, or female spy, and her task is to extract what…
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'The Perils of Being an Early-Modern Bottle-Blonde' - A Guest Post by Pete Langman
'The Perils of Being an Early-Modern Bottle-Blonde' - A Guest Post by Pete Langman @elegantfowl, author of KILLING BEAUTIES #KeepItStuart #17thCentury #ECW #SheIntelligencers
It’s quite usual to compliment the author of a work of historical fiction on their research, even though this doesn’t mean much more than ‘we’ve read the same history books’, but there is something to be said for appropriating knowledge that you happen to have, even if it didn’t start out as a considered part of the book.
When I was writing Killing Beauties, I was working from an historical…
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Book Review: An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
Book Review: An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears
An Instance of the Fingerpost, published in 1998, is a rather large work of historical fiction – 704 pages long! As I had this read aloud to me by my husband whenever we had some free time – which was not often – so it took over a year to get through it – but it was totally worth it.
This book is a historical mystery set in Oxford in the early 1660s and is broken into 4 parts and narrated…
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When Truth Exceeds Fiction - Guest Post by Alison Stuart
When Truth Exceeds Fiction – Guest Post by Alison Stuart
Thank you so much for hosting me today, Andrea. I love having an opportunity to share my passion for the 17th century with a soul sister!
I thought I would take a moment to talk about the inspiration behind my recent release THE KING’S MAN which is set at the height of the Interregnum (1654).
So often truth is stranger than fiction and sometimes as a writer you come across real events and people…
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